Looks like your ports tree is out of date. That port is at version linux_base-fc-4_13 now.

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my question is following:
how can i use portupgrade -af command and "tell" fetch to do following:

1. do passive ftp
2. set transfer timeout to 10 sec

First, doing a "portupgrade -af" probably isn't the best idea in the world. It is very easy to mess your ports up this way. I don't know under what context you are doing this, so I can't really explain what the better alternative would be. I'll just assume you know what you're doing and answer your question.

You can set the FETCH_CMD environment variable to use whatever fetching program you want with your custom arguments (see ports(7)). With fetch(1), you can use the -p flag to use passive mode and the -T <seconds> flag to set the timeout. You can also use the FTP_TIMEOUT and HTTP_TIMEOUT environment variables for timeouts (the -T flag with override these).

hi BSDKaffee,
thank you for your kind reply.
i didn't know what i was doing, better said i thought i knew what i was doing.
it was a nice lesson for me
anyway, thank you for your help.
i will try to set that env. variables.